Fort Worth appoints CDM Smith for $16m Mary’s Creek wastewater build-out
City of Fort Worth Water Department, Texas · Meeting date: October 27, 2026 · Published: October 28, 2026
Fort Worth City Council has approved a $16.04 million construction-management agreement with CDM Smith for the Mary’s Creek Water Reclamation Facility and its associated lift station and force main works. The programme’s reclamation-facility component now has total appropriations of $585.3 million.
Key points
- CDM Smith will provide construction management, schedule tracking, start-up coordination, oversight and inspection across five interrelated Mary’s Creek construction contracts.
- The centrepiece is a 10mgd membrane bioreactor plant designed to treat wastewater from the fast-growing west Fort Worth area.
- Council appropriated $11.65 million of commercial-paper funding to the reclamation facility, $1.10 million to the lift station and force main alignment work, and $3.29 million to the Mary’s Creek Confluence and Walnut Creek lift stations.
- The city adopted a reimbursement resolution preserving its ability to repay interim expenditures from future tax-exempt bond proceeds; it said debt must be issued within approximately three years for those costs to be reimbursable.
Full report
Fort Worth has moved to put construction-management capacity in place for its Mary’s Creek wastewater programme, approving a $16.04 million professional-services agreement with CDM Smith for a package led by a new 10mgd membrane bioreactor water reclamation facility.
The council approved the agreement on 27 October as part of its consent agenda. CDM Smith will manage construction of the Mary’s Creek Water Reclamation Facility, the Mary’s Creek Confluence and Walnut Creek lift stations, and Parts 1 and 2 of the Mary’s Creek lift station site and force main alignment projects.
The city said the facility will treat wastewater generated in the fast-growing west Fort Worth area. Two new lift stations — Walnut Creek and Mary’s Creek Confluence — and two new force mains will convey flows to the plant. The lift station and force main projects remain in design.
CDM Smith’s role will include tracking construction schedules, coordinating start-up of five interrelated construction contracts, and providing construction oversight and inspection services. The agreed fee is not to exceed $16,040,906.
Council also shifted a matching $16.04 million from the Water & Sewer Commercial Paper Fund’s general commercial-paper project into the individual Mary’s Creek programme components. The reclamation facility received $11,653,702; the lift station site and force main alignment work received $1,098,566; and the Mary’s Creek Confluence and Walnut Creek lift stations received $3,288,638.
Those additions bring total appropriations for the reclamation-facility project to $585.30 million. The lift station site and force main alignment project has total appropriations of $13.91 million, while the Mary’s Creek and Walnut Creek lift station project totals $8.01 million.
The council additionally adopted a resolution expressing its intent to reimburse expenditures from future debt proceeds. Fort Worth said available cash in the city and Water & Sewer portfolios, together with callable commercial-paper authority, will provide interim financing until debt is issued. The reimbursement resolution does not oblige the city to sell bonds, but preserves the ability to reimburse the portfolios from tax-exempt bond proceeds. Under federal law, the city said debt must be issued within approximately three years for the expenses to remain reimbursable.
The Mary’s Creek programme spans council districts 3 and 7, Fort Worth’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and the City of Benbrook.
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Source: City Council Meeting, City of Fort Worth Water Department